Shah Kamal Quhafa

Hazrat Shah Kamal Quhafa
Religion	Islam
Other names	Shah Kamal
Personal
Born	1291 CE Mecca, Hijaz, Arabia
Died	1385 CE Shaharpara, Muazzamabad, Sylhet (now in Sunamganj, Bangladesh)
Senior posting
Based in	Sunamganj, Sylhet (initially Mecca)
Title	Khalifa
Period in office	Late 13th century and early 14th century
Predecessor	Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani
Successor	Shah Jalaluddin Qureshi aka Shah Jalal II
Religious career
Post	Mystic sufi scholar, philanthropist, pioneer and social activist

Hazrat Shah Kamal Quhafa (aka Shah Kamal) Devanagari: ह्ज़्रत शाह कामाल क़ुहाफ़ा; Bengali: হজরত শাহ্‌ কামাল ক়োহাফাহ্ b.1291 d.1385 CE, was a philanthropist, pioneer, social and religious activist, who is revered in South Asia as a dervish of sufi order. He was born in Makkah, Hijaz province of Arabian Peninsula and travelled to Bangladesh with his Meccan wife and twelve sufi disciples in 1315 to disseminate ideals of socio-religious harmony and meet his father, Hazrat Khwaja Burhanuddin Quhafah, who had travelled to Bangladesh a decade earlier with Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani in 1303.

Hazrat Shah Kamal sought audience with Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani upon arriving at Sylhet. His wish was granted, he declared his allegiance and became disciple of Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani and then twelve disciples of Hazrat Shah Kamal were instructed to declare their allegiance to Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani and become his disciples. After becoming disciples of Hazrat Shah Jalal Yamani, they sojourned at Sylhet until June 1315.

Twelve disciples of Hazrat Shah Kamal Quhafah are: 1. Pir Kallu Shah (Pirergaon), 2. Shah Chand (Chandbharang), 3. Dawar Bakhsh Khatib (Dawarshahi or Dawarai), 4. Syed Zia Uddin (Mukan Bazaar), 5. Shaikh Shamsuddin Bihari (Aatghar), 6. Shah Faizullah (Feizi or Fesi), 7. Shah Jalaluddin (Qusipur or Quskipur), 8. Syed Tajuddin (Tajpur), 9. Syed Bahauddin (Mukan Bazar), 10. Syed Ruknuddin (Kadamhati), 11. Syed Shamsuddin (Syedpur) and 12. Shah Manik (Manihara).

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